Cleaning and gleaning the nailed threads, What would have me do, if anything? |
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Cleaning and gleaning the nailed threads, What would have me do, if anything? |
Pat Garvey |
Mar 21 2012, 04:56 PM
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Do I or don't I...........? Group: Members Posts: 5,899 Joined: 24-March 06 From: SE PA, near Philly Member No.: 5,765 Region Association: North East States |
In light of the nearly constant carping from ONE particular member to "cull the heard" of some nailed section(s) posts, I ask several questions:
1. Are there too many posts/threads that should be un-nailed? 2. Who should decide if they are inappropriate to the topic? 3. If, after deemed inappropriate to the thread/forum, should they me simply deleted? Should they be moved to some sort of limbo for aperiod of time before deletion? 4. Should they just be sent to the "limbo" category forever? 5. If sent to "limbo", should the posts be left there indefinitely? There are many anomolies to the early production 914's. These are old cars. Production of the early ones was filled with on-the-spot changes. 6. Many other questions........ Look, I'm just trying to do my job here. I do not know everything about every model produced. I will NOT be the judge of every post. I "moderate". That's all. In the rare occasion that something is inappropiate I have moved threads. Last thing I want is for my buds to be p_ssed off at me for my lack of knowledge of every 914 ever produced, in any iteration. Again, my job is to MODERATE. Guidance please! Pat |
Tom_T |
Mar 25 2012, 09:09 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California |
Paul,
There is no reason why they couldn't be organized by MY, but then you've just culled each of the current nailed threads' topics into one per MY list that the person needs to scroll, scroll, scroll through to find say: bumpers, or whatever. They're still scrolling through a ton of info per MY or per Area of the car/systems. Both have pros & cons, & both will be unwieldy as the data base grows for each sub-heading or topic of nailed threads. If they're organized by MY, then you see everything on hand at that time for a particular MY - and some of that is repetitive (i.e.: some items apply to more than one MY), but you get no sense of what happened historically in the development of the 914s over time by component or system across MYs - such as bumpers, and how to identify if your 75 has backdated bumpers, for instance. Whereas as currently organized by component of the car across all MYs you do get that sense, but then have to visit several topics for everything on your particular MY 914. In my case for example, it was critical to ascertain that EVERYTHING option/group-wise was included on ALL USA early 914-2.0s marketed here as "914Ss" - which I wouldn't have necessarily gotten out of a 73 MY only nailed topic (but maybe it could have). I don't know who started organizing, but I suspect they did it the way their brain thinks & works, so now there is a huge body of work organized with one filing system, and you want it under a different filing system. Neither is wrong or right, better or worse IMHO - but it is what we have to date to work with, and will take a huge effort to reorganize things - in addition to culling out the chit-chatty posts like I spent several hours last night doing for mine (maybe I'm just a bigger offender). I just don't think it's all practical in a volunteer effort like this. JMHO! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) |
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